{"id":3275,"date":"2019-03-20T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2019-03-18T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T13:49:08","slug":"sdo-catches-lunar-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"SDO Catches Lunar Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CbtPi8nEwYs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NASA dicit:<\/p>\n<p>On the evening of March 6, 2019, the Moon started to transit the Sun, then doubled back and retraced its steps in the other direction \u2014 at least, that&#8217;s what it looked like from the perspective of NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, in orbit around Earth. The relative speeds and positions of the Moon, the Sun and NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory resulted in this unusual lunar transit where the Moon appears to pause and reverse course. <\/p>\n<p>Video Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of March 6, 2019, the Moon started to transit the Sun, then doubled back and retraced its steps in the other direction \u2014 at least, that&#8217;s what it looked like from the perspective of NASA&#8217;s Solar Dynamics Observatory in orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,111,463],"tags":[28,338,435],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-telescopes","category-videos","tag-moon","tag-sdo","tag-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}